Solar Power Mobile Charger
Solar power mobile charger can be built by tweaking digital power supply schematic. The Software/Hardware stayed almost the same as the original circuit.Current design has the same overcurrent protection and output voltage can be changed by pressing SW1. Voltage and Current ...
BCD to 7 Segment Display Decoder
In this post I'll show how you can drive 7 Segment LED display with PIC16F876A. Instead of using a dedicated IC’s like 4511 we’ll program the micro controller to convert BCD input code 0 – 9 to a 7 Segment LED ...
Simple IR Proximity Sensor
This post is about building a Simple IR Proximity Sensor based on PIC16F877a micro controller. Usually these simple circuits are built using discrete components and include an OP AMP for comparing the photo diode voltage to a preset value. Current ...
7×5 Dot Matrix Character Generator
In this post a basic character generator design based on PIC16F88 will be demonstrated. 7x5 Dot Matrix Display was used and its pin out is shown in the schematic below. Instead of using PIC16F876/7 microcontrollers PIC16F88 was chosen for this purpose ...
2 Channel PC Fan Controller
Following recently published article about building a PWM Fan Controller here is another simple controller design. This time it’s a 2 Channel PC Fan Controller for standard 12V Fans. It uses software implementation of PWM but instead of directly driving PWM ...
Alphanumeric Display Driver
In this post I’ll show how a single alphanumeric display can be driven by PIC16f877A micro controller. There are dedicated IC’s for this purpose however a micro-controller can be programmed to perform this task. By using a microcontroller you'll get a ...
Digital Voltmeter VFD Display
This is a new revision of 10 bit Digital Voltmeter. For Arduino based voltmeter click here. Recently I’ve published a few voltmeter designs ranging from a simple LED display voltmeters with 8 bit of resolution to a more complex with 10bit ...
3 Digit Dot Matrix Display SPI
3 Digit Dot Matrix Display with SPI interface is an advanced version of recently published 7x5 Dot Matrix Character Generator project. This design is more complex as it contains 4 microcontrollers. Three PIC16F88 were used to control 7x5 Dot Matrix Displays, ...
High Power LED Controller
This post is about building a simple LED controller circuit. Several articles were published on this subject. Here is just one link to similar design that can be useful. Search the site for more information. Current design relies on well-known technique to ...
PCF8574 I2C 8-bit I/O expander
In this post we’ll review a simple interface for PCF8574 I2C 8-bit IO expander IC and PIC microcontroller. For similar Arduino based implementation click this link. The format of present post is similar to 2 recently published tutorials about I2C ...